Phil 11.12.19

7:00 – 4:00 ASRC GOES

  • Dissertation – Human study discussion
    • “Degrees of Freedom” are different from “dimensions”. Dimensions, as used in machine learning, mean a single parameter that can be varied, discretely or continuously. Degrees of freedom define a continuous space that can contain things that are not contained in the dimensions. Latitude and Longitude do not define the globe. They serve as a way to show relationships between regions on the globe.
  • How news media are setting the 2020 election agenda: Chasing daily controversies, often burying policy
    • Our topic analysis of ~10,000 news articles on the 2020 Democratic candidates, published between March and October in an ideological diverse range of 28 news outlets, reveals that political coverage, at least this cycle, tracks with the ebbs and flows of scandals, viral moments and news items, from accusations of Joe Biden’s inappropriate behavior towards women to President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine. (A big thanks to Media Cloud.)
  • Neat visualization – a heatmap plus a mean. I’d like to try adding things like variance to this. From Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games. Looks like the Seaborn library might be able to do this.

Heatmap

  • Evolver – more GPU allocation and threading
    • Training – load and unload GPUs using thread pools
      • Updating EvolutionaryOptimizer
        • got threads working
        • Added enums, which meant that I had to handle enum key values in my ExcelUtils class
        • Updated the TimeSeriesML2 whl
        • Started folding gpu management into PyBullet. Making sure that everything still works first… It does!
      • Ok, back to TimeSeriesML2 to make nested genomes
        • Added a parent/child relationship to EvolveAxis so that it’s possible to a top-level parent (self.parent == None) to step down the tree of all the children to get the new appropriate values. These will need to be assembled into an argument string. Figure that part out tomorrow.
    • Predicting – load and use models in real time